Improvement in combined fork and spoon



A. B. NOTT. Combined Pork and Spoon, &o.

No. 212,044. Patented Feb. 4, 1879.

Y ATTORNEY N. PETERS PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, n10.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON B. NOTT, or FAIRHAVEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED FORK AND SPOON, 800.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 2,04 1, datedFebruary 4, 1879; application filed December 14, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON B. NOTT, of Fairhaven, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Combined Fork and Spoon, Dipper, or Flipper; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of myimproved culinary implement. Fig. 2 is aplan View of the same with thespoon, dipper, or turner thrown back; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinalcentral section of the said implement.

This invention has relation to culinary instruments; and it consists inthe construction and novel arrangement, in connection with a fork, of aspoon, dipper, flat turner, or similar device, which is hinged in a slotin the handle of the fork, and bears against a spring secured to one endof the slotted portion, and engaging with the other end of the slot byitsfree end, the same forming an improvement upon the instrument uponwhich Letters Patent No. 165,117, dated June 29, 187 5, were granted tome.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the fork, havingin the handle, near the breast. a longitudinal slot, b, and raised oneach side of said slot a pivot-lug, c.

D represents a spoon, cake-turner, dipper, or similar article, having ashort shank, d, which extends into the slot 1) at about its centralportion, and is pivoted to the fork-handle by a pin, 2, passing throughperforations in the lugs c. A spring, 8, extends in the slot under thepivoted shank d, and is secured at one end of the slot in a step orrecess, 0, so

that there is no excrescence or projection on desired; or it can be laiddown upon the prongs of the fork, or turned back against the handlethereof, the spring holding it in either position with sufficient forcefor the ordinary purposes to which such an article is likely to beapplied.

The spring, being located entirelywithin the slot, and having its freeend guarded by'the beveled end bearing thereof, is not liable to form anobstruction, or to be damaged by catching against other articles.

The raised lugs allow the cam end of the short shank to projectsufficiently below the pivot to secure proper leverage against theholdin g-sprin g.

Having described this invent-ion, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-

The fork A, having a bevel-ended slot, 1), and raised pivot-lugs c oneach side thereof, the holding-sprin g s, secured in one end of saidslot and bearing on the other, and a dipper, cake-turner, spoon, orsimilar article having a short cam-shank pivoted to said lugs, andbearing in the slot against the holding-sprin g, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

AARON B. NOTT. Witnesses:

GHAs. DREW, FRANK A. RAND.

